Halsey’s End

It is extraordinary that so many of Tewkesbury’s photographic pioneers met with untimely ends - but the statistics speak for themselves. And even if my grandfather, Halsey Freeman had been aware of this disquieting background on the profession he was about to join in the twenties, clearly it did nothing to deter him too, from taking up the art. Some eighty years on, this only makes his own premature passing seem all the more poignant and ironic ….